Explorers Room with Flash Strap:
Playlist
from March 8, 2018

This is where all of culture and all of time are collapsed into one seductive portal and viewed through the panoramic lens of the exotic. Come and embark on an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of timeless darkness and beyond; embrace the numinous monolith of the exotic immensity. Let us find that place where hybridization meets its destiny as pure fantasy. Let us become observers observing those others who are ourselves. You wear your mask and I'll wear mine.

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Thu. 3/8/18 7:02pm
listener james from westwood:
Oh, man, major flashback: a high school friend lived near enough to a zoo that when we would all leave his house late at night, we could hear the peacocks in the distance.

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Thu. 3/8/18 7:17pm
Stepchild:
Hello from the surface. Going back under now.

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Thu. 3/8/18 7:20pm
Andrew Waterloo:
I do like this version of Space is the Place

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Thu. 3/8/18 7:20pm
Stepchild:
This comp, is easy to love. Unfortunately for those easily afflicted with Acquisitive Sun Ra Syndrome, however, the temptation to dig out all of the source sessions is an everpresent danger

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Thu. 3/8/18 7:20pm
Uncle Michael:
We need some more names in the hopper for these prizes! Step right up!

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Thu. 3/8/18 7:24pm
doctorjazz:
I have a decent piece of gear for ripping vinyl, but think I've only done it about 3 times, such a PIA!

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Thu. 3/8/18 7:27pm
Uncle Michael:
I'd like to see some more premium-level pledges!

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Thu. 3/8/18 7:27pm
Stepchild:
even geared up, it's a daunting thing -- especially if one is "of a certain age" and has a largish vinyl collection, one begins to ask "how many more times am I going to listen to this recording I am ripping in real time and editing in extra time?"

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Thu. 3/8/18 7:43pm
Scraps:
Argh. I tried to say why, and stay around, but I kept getting mad explaining why. 2018 is Wax Ascending (except Bodega Pop, bless them). It’s not just you, so I don’t want to get mad at you. Jeez, I named named you (among others) in my Swag 4 Life. I’m just frustrated (and surprised) at the level of vinyl takeover this year. I thought there was more that doesn’t play vinyl, like me. But maybe I’m wrong.

Anyway, I have to go right now. Have fun (sincerely). I hope you get your goal. Cheers.

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Thu. 3/8/18 7:49pm
Uncle Michael:
We're giving away sweet vinyl for the rest of the show. To make that happen, we need PLEDGES! $20 or more gets your name written on a slip of paper and placed face-down on my flannel duvet cover.

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Thu. 3/8/18 7:50pm
Gary:
True -- and I did pick up all my prizes a bodegas this year, and bodegas tend to sell CDs and cassettes. Although, having said that, I know of four or five places that do have limited vinyl offerings

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Thu. 3/8/18 7:51pm
hyde:
gonna go to bat for the non-swag-ers. you can send money in and get nothing in return! i just did. maybe you'll still even to put it in as a charitable deduction next year? probably not. BUT WHO CARES